leon wrote:This is dire. Oh Andy Bell, how did you become a substitute Bonehead?

he started doing that in Ride, to be fair

Very true. And in Hurricane #1 in between, lest we forget (and, on balance, we should probably try to).

IIRC his floppier-fringed co-Rider Mark Gardner popped up on Benjamin Schoos's altogether more appealing album last year, though his contribution wasn't quite as lovely as that of Dame Laetitia of Sadier's. How could it be.

Jesus Suzanne Christ. There really aren't words, are there - even the Gallaghers' cat-sat-mat feckwittery reads like Kafka next to the efforts of this risible man-foetus. Am I right in thinking we've got Alan McGee to thank for this?

He's from Doncaster, so it seems we good burghers of South Yorkshire have two choices. Either we wait until Saturday week, and throw him under the hooves of whatever's leading the field in the St Leger; or we just tolerate him for a few years until he starts getting really, really arch and earnest and starts doing Razorlight-calibre photoshoots for us all to p*ss laughing at. Shall we start a poll?

I beg to differ that all music may by 15 year olds is necessarily rubbish. My son's band (sadly now no more, due to a chair throwing incident) were all 15-17 when they recorded their first EP and its a masterpiece compared to that.

I didn't mean that all music made by 15 year olds is bad, only that almost all of it is - the shit I came up with as a youth was proper guff. When kids that age come up with good tunes it's a wonderful surprise. There's a group doing the rounds Cambridge/Ely way called Holden Girls who are dead good and yet to take their GCSEs. http://holdengirls.bandcamp.com/